Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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